Giving up maintainer duty

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Fri Sep 5 17:22:03 CEST 2014


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> To assign a package to this fake maintainer, somebody has to rebuild
> packages and spoof the maintainer name.

Yes, that's the normal way of updating the database but surely it must
be possible to re-assign packages directly in the database. I assume
pkginfo data is never used again by us so it doesn't matter much if
someone downloads a package and queries it for the old maintainer.

When forking Dago also ran every package through a script to rebuild
pkginfo data so even that isn't that hard if deemed necessary.


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